Tenants undrethreats from builders(New Land lords)
Querist :
Anonymous
(Querist) 11 January 2011
This query is : Resolved
We were tenants of a Public Charitable Trust owned by a business house for over 25 yrs and in 2006 the trust has sold the buildings to two builders at a lesser price on paper then offered by the tenants for converting their respective premises in to ownership and they are now harassing and threatening us to vacate the buildings. The buildings were constructed in 1960 and are in dalipdated conditions as trust never maintained them. All our efforts to repair the buildings have been waste as BMC due to collusion with builders is not granting the permission for repairs and contempt petion filed by us against BMC is also being delayed and pending since 2009.
The builders have now approached us due to pending contempt petition against BMC for redevelopment of buildings but are not willing to convert our premises in to ownership in the new building/s. We see great risk in the proposal as we paid Pagdi (Goodwill) in cash and in earlier years the trend was of tenancy.
Therefore pl. advice and answer following queries:
1)How we can secure our selves ?
2) How we can get the premises converted in to ownership ?
3) Can we ask for goodwill at market rate for surrendering tenancy rights as we don't trust the builders ?
